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From: Joseph LUKONG, Cameroon, Africa
Date: 10/6/01
Time: 2:01:32 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.167
I am from Cameroon, Africa. I do not have access to web pages so Judy Kuster is forwarding answers back to me by email.
How can one explain the causes of stuttering? Is it hereditary. Let me tell you my personal history which makes me to believe that it is hereditary. My father is a polygamist having three wives. My mother is the first of his wives and has six children. Of these children all of us the four boys are stutterers and the two girls are not. My father's second wife has 8 children-3 girls and 5 boys. Four of the five boys are stutterers and 2 of the three girls are stutterers. My father's 3rd wife has 7 children- 4 boys and three boys . All the boys are stutterers and only one of those girls is a stutterer. From all This can we say that stuttering in our family is hereditary?. Neither my father nor any of his wives is a stutterer. What can be the cause of this? Why is it that nearly all the boys are stutterers? How can one explain that?